Illusion of Life

There is something so unexpected about death that disturbs me to a great extent. I was randomly going through my Instagram feed yesterday night when I came across a post which said, RIP Sridevi. At the present scenario where we are not sure about anything until Google confirms it, I googled and read various news updates stating that Sridevi had passed away due to cardiac arrest. The first thought that crossed my mind was “How can that be? She was so healthy, beautiful and she was not sick. How can a person just die like that”.

I am not someone who grew up watching her movie’s, honestly speaking I have just seen one of her movie’s and that to a Malayalam movie but imagine the coincidence when the day before you had searched for that particular movie song and was randomly watching her and commenting how pretty she looked.

And that's how death invades us when we are so busy in planning our future, thinking about the things to be done the next day, week or month but completely forgetting the things we did today and the people we were with. I always live in the past either thinking how much I miss those days or worrying about the future what am I going to do after this? Will everything be alright? Is there a problem which is going to come?How can I sort that problem out?

But its when you hear about a death that you realize whatever problem you are facing in your life, it is not greater than the loss of a person in your life. I thought about the people that I cared about what if something happens to them, nothing in this world matters to me without them in my life. To see our parents happy or our children grow older, that’s the happiness that we dream. Money, career, education everything is important but it’s for the sole purpose of survival. We work hard to make ends meet, struggle ourselves to get money but those are the things that make us move forward in life to survive.We cry ourselves out because of heartbreaks when we feel we are not good enough; its always a constant battle between yourself but we know deep inside that we will get over it. We become stronger over time, after a few months you don't remember the struggles you remember the good times, the people who were there with you. But have you thought what if there is no tomorrow? What if? Is there anything that you would want to do? Or regret not doing? Or does it make the problem that we are facing today seem a little bit smaller?

All that I want to say is that everyone’s fighting a battle to survive and as far as you can, help them even a random stranger, it can even be a smile but it might make their day a little bit brighter. Life is just a matter of moment’s, as we struggle for tomorrow when we are not even sure whether we will be alive the next day. Cherish every moment in your life, and let you're loved once know that you love them don’t wait for tomorrow. Everything will move on even if we are not there but make the most of it when we have the chance to be living this life that we have now. And to end it with a quote that my English teacher had quoted “Never go to bed fighting with your loved one, make sure you solve it before you sleep cause the next day is always a blessing”.